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Subject:Re: Website readability--blue text? From:Roy Anderson <royanderson -at- IBM -dot- NET> Date:Wed, 19 Aug 1998 15:20:07 -0400
Have received a number of direct e-mail requests for info on how to effect
the hypertext color changes I mentioned in an earlier post.
Please understand that there isn't an option, insofar as I know of one, for
online help developers to specify an override hypertext color in help tools
such as RoboHELP. Later versions of RoboHELP permit disabling the use of
dark green as the default hypertext link. Doing this, however, results in
hypertext appearing in the auto color (typically black). Bummer.
You can specify different default colors for online hypertext and popup links,
but such changes must be made to a system file on your Windows PC. In sum,
custom hypertext color control is specific to the PC you're using. You must
modify your PC files. If you use another PC, you're back to square one. It's
not difficult to override the default green color but...
I need to run errands now, but will attempt to post the Win 3.1 and Win95
procedures in the next day or so. Please be patient. Thanks.
Roy
>
> Roy Anderson wrote:
>
> > After adding a "How to Change the Default Hyperlink Text Color" topic to the
> > Tips section of the help project, many employees--including a few women--
> > changed customized their default hyperlink color to dark blue. Everyone
> > lived happily ever after.
